Percentage of Ludlow students attending 4-year colleges declines

File photo | The RepublicanLudlow school superintendent Theresa Kane said the percentage of Ludlow High School grauduates attending four-year colleges has declined over the past four years.

LUDLOW – The percentage of Ludlow High School graduates attending four-year colleges has declined between 2007 and 2010, School Superintendent Theresa M. Kane said.

The school district’s strategic plan mentions the decline as a challenge for the school district.

The percentage attending a four-year college fell from 45 percent from the class of 2007 to 34 percent in the class of 2009 before rising to 42 percent from the class of 2010, according to figures in the school district’s strategic plan. Of the class of 2008, 40 percent attending a four-year college.

Kane said the school district sends many students to two-year colleges after graduation, but many of those students do not continue their educations to obtain bachelor’s degrees.